He hadn't known he was funny, but as Jason, he delivers punch line after punch line.
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"They're using women as a punch line, or queer people as a punch line," Ms. Kantor said, "and that's never O.K."
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Typically, he moves from punch line to punch line with pace, but the two times I have seen him tell this one, he went silent as the laughter built.
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There's a set up and then there's a punch line.
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"And, this, every single night" is Matthews's deadpan punch line.
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Isn't Los Angeles outgrowing its role as America's punch line?
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But those glasses, called Spectacles, became a costly punch line.
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"In a bar," Berninger piped in, delivering the punch line.
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The punch line "and such small portions" came to mind.
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The punch line, however, is at 41- and 47 Across.
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It's kind of setup and then right to the punch line.
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She became a punch line for, among others, President Donald Trump.
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Topanga's feminism on "Boy Meets World" was often a punch line.
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He was omnipresent in pop culture, often as a punch line.
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"Wake me up for the winter meetings" was his punch line.
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The punch line was that it was a hot fudge sundae.
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Almost simultaneously he became something of a pop-culture punch line.
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The setup is followed by a punch line with a twist.
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The point where the two concepts intersect equals the punch line.
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It was an odd, if exuberant, punch line to the journey.
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Ronnie Marmo's new solo show opens cold with its punch line.
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Why has "infrastructure week" become a punch line for political jokes?
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The tale is richly textured, but with the predictable punch line.
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Death is a hilarious punch line until it happens to you.
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But that would not have offered the same satisfying punch line.
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What follows is not a punch line but a punch out.
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The delivery is so deadpan it begs for a punch line.
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If you imagine that to be merely a punch line, forget it.
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What seems like the setup for a punch line is really happening.
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And here is the punch line of Mario Draghi's German hearing session.
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But here's the punch line: The legislature put it on the ballot!
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I don't even remember what punch line I had for the Answer.
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When Americans talk about sex ed, it's typically as a punch line.
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The movie's climactic punch line was repeatedly expurgated and reinstated during previews.
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She would have been a punch line, a cautionary tale, a joke.
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On Baseball LAS VEGAS — Harold Baines has been a punch line before.
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By now you might be able to guess the punch line here.
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I'll call it a punch line, thereby giving half of it away.
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"Tell me more about psytrance" became a come-on and punch line.
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My punch line is: Yes, countries can do it one by one.
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And as the punch line (almost) goes, boy, are their legs tired.
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Among economists, Japan is a byword, a punch line, a horror story.
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In Amy Schumer's "Last Fuckable Day" sketch, Sally Field is a punch line.
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But over the past two decades, the group did become a punch line.
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The whole movie is a setup for a punch line that never comes.
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His rap sheet has since become a punch line in and of itself.
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And while Mr. DiCaprio is an easy punch line, he's certainly not alone.
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" She paused, then thought of a punch line: "Well, marriage shouldn't be long.
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In was the punch line about the White House tapping your cell phone.
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It wouldn't be the Martian Death Flu without that kind of punch line.
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Maybe I, too, could be seen as a person, not a punch line.
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The climate was not a punch line, but a reality that shaped lifestyles.
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The Jim Mattis route is a lot better than the punch line route.
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Adding "The Movie" to the title reads like a punch line in itself.
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Do you need to know why Cranston works as a gentle punch line?
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Mr. Rosenberg was impressed, but then the caller got to the punch line.
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In fact, it was something of a punch line at Tuesday's Pitch Day.
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He laughed when he mentioned this, as if it were a punch line.
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"Saturday Night Live" wasted no time bringing back its most reliable punch line.
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"I was the punch line of lots of jokes," DeGeneres, 58, told Out Magazine.
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"The punch line is that most people are very resilient to disasters," Lowe said.
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We're jokers at punch line… We're funny, but what's happening is not fucking funny.
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When you finally get to the punch line, it is more of a surprise.
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"I was so uncool that I was literally a punch line," the star said.
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"Few things rouse the group as much as a Hillary punch line," Rubenstein writes.
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So it's made Thor a fish out of water and a recurrent punch line.
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His name was even immortalized as a punch line in a Woody Allen film.
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It was a guy who was a punch-line name and had presidential aspirations.
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There is no punch line; these people do not belong together in any sensible way.
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" Stone said, before dropping the punch line: "Because you didn't save jazz … we saved jazz.
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After every mean-sounding punch line, everyone in the audience would look into his heart.
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Clinton, seeming to get the joke before some others, chuckled hard before the punch line.
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So, when this week's Life & Style hit newsstands, he was first to the punch line.
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A punching bag for the administration, he became a punch line for much of America.
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Even the purely comedic bits on these shows are traditional: setup, punch line, audience applause.
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Once a month, some prime-time network TV show uses FarmersOnly as a punch line.
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Fox & Friends has spent years being the punch line of every joke about Fox News.
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The text is a pretty clear, if flaccid, punch line regarding Serena Williams's poor sportsmanship.
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If the Star of India was the story's headline, museum security was the punch line.
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It is a jarring bait and switch, a visual joke with a grim punch line.
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There was unmistakable pride in his smile when he found a punch line particularly amusing.
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He can play it cool, have a slow burn, and nail a good punch line.
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Here, Trump jokes often come with the punch line that his election proves Canada's superiority.
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"Finally, Sammy gets ticked off," Mr. Scognamillo said, setting up the oft-told punch line.
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Conservatives turned the phrase "vast right-wing conspiracy" from an accusation to a punch line.
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But since then, the possibility of Brady's departure has gone from punch line to probable.
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They mock and assail him, call him a disgrace, a punch line, a pretender-king.
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It's a Borscht Belt gag, but, then, Abby's whole life feels like a punch line.
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It was exactly three weeks from the day the punch line became the president-elect.
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The man is consumed by an obsessive need to fulfill a campaign pledge punch line.
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" The punch line: "If any of you have tickets, I am perfectly prepared to subpoena them.
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She proved that she was the star in their relationship, while he became a punch line.
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It hardly matters though; Levine is the punch line, but the joke is on the audience.
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An artist couple talks about paintings with a punch line and a street full of rats.
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GS: The circular easel allows me to mess with expectations about gravity and the punch line.
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The series became a punch line around Hollywood, and few thought it would ever come back.
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Both specials, however, were sharp returns to form for masters of the setup and punch line.
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There is, in the pointed dialogue, a reminder of why we call it a punch line.
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Axe says no, but the grim punch line is that neither does Andolov, nor anyone else.
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" For Mr. Mulaney, that was the ideal punch line to his unlikely setup: a former "S.
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It's now time to let loose the jokes of war and turn ISIS into a punch line.
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Odom laughed at the punch line of a story he has no doubt told a few times.
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"I'm the punch line to a lot of jokes," Scissons said, including those he makes about himself.
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The game sends you joke prompts to your phone, where you then fill in the punch line.
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But he's still a really good punch line — at least for digital-short mavens The Lonely Island.
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While we were all waiting for the punch line, this national joke turned into a dark comedy.
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Each expression, gesture, artful hesitation and sly punch line is zeroed in on, framed for our appreciation.
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He stared, as if I'd lost my mind, as if he were waiting for the punch line.
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"They say I'm Joan Rivers, but older," she says in a typical zing of a punch line.
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Whole Foods has long been a punch line for people uncomfortable with everything the organic retailer represents.
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The inaugural cake quickly became a punch line on Twitter, a mock controversy with the hashtag #cakegate.
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The phrase "cocktail safety" may sound like an oxymoron, or the punch line of a barroom joke.
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It caused consequences for their careers and turned them into a punch line on late night talk shows.
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Among these characters, only one identified as transgender, and the role was used as merely a punch line.
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These hilarious jokes usually come back to a familiar punch line: Women just can't function when they bleed.
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And in the early days of a relationship, sexting is often a race to the perfect punch line.
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Over the course of their occupation, the militia members turned into a bit of a national punch line.
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Those are delightful, but they serve a setup and a punch line outside the meaning of the film.
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It's Donald Trump's world and women are just forced to live in it as his favorite punch line.
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"The punch line is, it doesn't matter," Julio Friedmann, the former Principal Deputy Assistant Energy Secretary, told me.
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To be the punch line to a not-so-funny joke is not a happy place for Texans.
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Thus, a bartender at Hot Bird explained, goes the punch-line-less joke of a first Tinder date.
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It's a pop-culture throwaway, a charming bit of trivia, the punch line to a half-forgotten joke.
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It has turned faces into masks (alternately tragic and comic), people into caricatures, death into a punch line.
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Coming when it does in the action, the line is more like a punch line than an apology.
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Cher, we learn, has been wounded by being a punch line, and these iterations of her aren't sendups.
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He has an improv comic's physicality, with a tendency to lean forward as he approaches a punch line.
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A punch line about the daily goings-on in Washington can get easy laughs from like-minded viewers.
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But "Dietland" uses Ms. Nash's body as a provocation and not as a punch line or punching bag.
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And almost all of them made a joke where the punch line was [a crude word about women].
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Some of his most popular tweets aim for a kind of resonant mystery without attempting a punch line.
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Yesterday's planned anti-Beyoncé protest in front of NFL headquarters in New York ended up becoming a punch line.
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But for fans who simply want to get to the punch line, we are publishing the system's results here.
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It's something to do with the rhythm of the words and the repeat of the hilarious punch line ("Oops").
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Buh-leeve me, no punch line appears on ABC without getting O.K.'d all the way to the top.
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They have been bullied for so long that they became a literal punch line on a network television show.
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It devolves into clichéd "I can't let you do that" confrontations on its way to a trifling punch line.
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It was Tonya Harding who was the punch line to just about every late-night monologue joke in 238.
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He enhances the contrast between the women's colorful apartment and the antiseptic business world as a visual punch line.
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I prefer the latter because it's almost like hearing the punch line of a joke, but you do you.
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The moth joke resembles a shaggy-dog story structurally, but its wrenching punch line reveals Macdonald's mastery of craft.
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Here are the times he served as a punch line — or punching bag — for presenters and in acceptance speeches.
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And if their romance initially borders on the fairy-tale, just wait until you get to the punch line.
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How could I make sense of my own history without sensationalizing it, or turning it into a punch line?
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The senator's policy, patterned on the Reagans', was to never utter the disease's name, except as a punch line.
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When I was growing up, after "The Partridge Family," before "Glee," a musical series was mostly a punch line.
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If you place a curse toward the end of a punch line, the joke will get a bigger pop.
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RAMSEY FARAGALLAH Before 9/11, if you were brown, you were basically just a cabdriver or a punch line.
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" A follow-up to this punch line didn't quite work, prompting Mr. Donovan to say: "Not a great tag.
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Wala akong makilala dito," (I don't recognize anyone!) Then, the punch line: "Yung hindi natawag itong dalawa, yun sa akin.
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His transformation from baggie Ts and cornrows to white suits and sunglasses has made him a very rich punch line.
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"I get really nervous, and I kept rewording the punch line so it would have the biggest impact," he said.
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Anything and anyone can be made into a punch line: Bill Cosby, R. Kelly, Michelle Obama's hips, Black Lives Matter.
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But now, in the final days of a horrid campaign, an unshackled Trump is more national threat than punch line.
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As with the character Ben from the aforementioned "Night of the Walking Dead," Glenn's ethnicity is not a punch line.
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MoviePass finally died over the weekend, but the movie-ticket-subscription service had become a punch line long before that.
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The setup/punch line style of humor here thus often just feels wan; only a few jokes are home runs.
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Mr. Trump is uniting top Republican donors — against him — and he is increasingly becoming a punch line for President Obama.
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"Kimmel hired me to direct his show when most people were using my name as a punch line," he said.
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The article shocked a nation, and Cleveland's burning river became a national punch line and shorthand for Rust Belt despair.
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Macdonald speaks often about a kind of Platonic form of a joke whose punch line is identical to its setup.
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This ingenious short subject imagines all that, with amazing if corrugated realism, and delivers a funny punch line to boot.
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A typical rakugo performance consists of stories delivered with three parts: an introduction, the story proper and the punch line.
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" After he explains that this strategy worked, he builds on the punch line with a shrugging delivery: "Sometimes love wins.
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Contradictory messages abound: Love your body, but also accept that it's utterly undesirable, a punch line for comics and critics.
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He went from draft day punch line to training camp breakout to fan favorite in a span of five months.
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BOSTON — Ask Alex Cora about the difficulty of winning consecutive championships, and you're setting him up for a punch line.
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Otherwise, he risks becoming the punch line to the joke his detractors have been trying unsuccessfully to tell all along.
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When a federal law becomes a punch line for the president of the United States, it's time for a change.
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You know the punch line: The ball will fall back to earth, landing — plop — in the back of the net.
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He became a punch line for changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol and writing the word "slave" on his face.
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The former host tagged in to finish the monologue after current emcee Jimmy Fallon "pulled a muscle" delivering a punch line.
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According to my culture, I was one of two things: a punch line for a prerecorded laugh track, or a freak.
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From time to time, Brown leans on his picture-book instincts and lets the artwork land a punch line or surprise.
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He scrolled through Italian news sites with the tight, preëmptive smile of somebody reading toward the punch line of a joke.
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The crowd, sensing that ridicule would be the order of the day, became a nervously appreciative audience for each punch line.
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He speaks with a Virginia accent, and his voice is inflected with humor, as if a punch line is always imminent.
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How do you walk the line between being respectful because you like the music and also angling for the punch line?
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But Hefner, a pop cultural punch line, was also a Psychology major, with an IQ alleged to be in the 229s.
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I just hope that when that holiday 2016 campaign launches, we won't all look at it, waiting for the punch line.
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The old punch line has changed: a professor fluent in five languages no longer need travel south to encounter voter suppression.
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Red Sox 4, Yankees 1 During Eduardo Nunez's four seasons as a Yankee, he was part team mascot, part punch line.
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Over the course of babysitting, she begins to role-play, a seemingly innocuous ploy that culminates in a pleasing punch line.
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They even have explainers for jokes ready, for when a host's esoteric punch line leaves viewers scratching their heads at home.
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From the "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" commercials to "Legally Blonde," this pint-size pooch makes for the ultimate canine punch line.
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But if that joke is about something that brings us genuine joy and isn't harming anyone, then what's the punch line?
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He was tall, fair-haired in his youth with a chiseled jawline, a charismatic storyteller who never missed a punch line.
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It wasn't a grand-finale punch line Carmichael had been obviously building toward throughout the 50-plus minutes that preceded it.
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As the year drew to a close, the punch line of our national catastrophe appeared to be that we'd lost touch.
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When he later tells his parole officer that he is not associating with known criminals, Jimmy's "no" is a punch line.
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For the punch line you really need the addition of some letters, and here is where those down clues come in.
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Peeing every time you sneeze is not O.K. And yet, incontinence after pregnancy is considered a punch line, not a problem.
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To put it another way: This is a rare Jewish joke in which the punch line lives up to the delivery.
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He napped, and talked in his sleep, and then he woke up in conversation with himself, cheesing at the punch line.
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But that's how fast things move in start-up land: In 12 months they'd already become a cocktail party punch line.
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The film has some elements of farce, but never makes the sexual desires of the 50-something women the punch line.
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Divorced from his action-movie deadpan, Snipes is having the time of his life, and he lands every condescending punch line.
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She's been a punch line for most of her adult life, after she cut off her husband's penis 25 years ago.
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"The fact that being trans is the joke, it's the punch line...as a trans person, that just sucks," the filmmaker admits.
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While his name is invoked as a cautionary tale, it is often used as a punch line and as TMZ click bait.
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Roadkill's power as a punch line for stand-up comedians, politicians and songwriters probably dates to the early days of the automobile.
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His injury-hobbled final season and the questions around him were already making him something of a punch line on humor sites.
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I couldn't throw a punch, but I could throw a punch line, which remains my most reliable resource as a writer now.
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The Walking Dead can often feel like it spends so much time in its windup and not enough on the punch line.
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" Even while making this more sobering point, though, Burnett did not pass on a punch line: "So here's to reruns and YouTube!
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JON PARELES All hail our greatest punch line rapper, 2 Chainz, who never met an evocative image he couldn't upend and extend.
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It could have been the punch line in a standup bit, except that no one seemed to know if she was joking.
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Mezcaleria La Milagrosa might sound like a punch line in Aziz Ansari's "Master of None," but the allure of the speakeasy remains.
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"Piercing" also leads up to a wryly funny punch line that made this viewer a little more forgiving of its plentiful affectations.
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I know it when the Trail of Tears becomes a tasteless punch-line and when white people say it's all in the past.
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He's trying to prove himself to be more than the sad punch line everyone thinks he is and works hard on the job.
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His prize was Captain America, a guy whose moral rectitude makes him the punch line of jokes that Johnny Storm would have made.
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Two overpaid professors lecturing the rest of us on how to make college affordable is like the punch line to a bad joke.
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They are terse and acrobatic, scriptural and bawdy, vividly descriptive and enduringly ambiguous, never far from either a riddle or a punch line.
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It's a game that was seemingly developed as a punch line for an event attended by wealthy investors, and it feels the part.
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The war in Iraq dragged on for years to come, American casualties piled up, and the "Mission Accomplished" banner became a punch line.
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The concluding sentence of Philip Roth's novel is a punch line, turning the tale that has come before into an extended Jewish joke.
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But it's funny how every punch line just kind of lands on that show because it's so true except for the Monica punchlines.
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Watch: More of a punch line than soda at this point, Mountain Dew seemed an obvious, if not perfunctory sacrifice for the bong.
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Perhaps only in the Trump era would the prospect of being impeached become a punch line for the president of the United States.
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No topic is too soon or too taboo for Jeselnik to deliver a knockout punch line about — don't let the beard fool you.
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He's then roasted mercilessly because, apparently in their world, there's no funnier punch line than a man showing vulnerability and expressing his feelings.
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Hootie became, to some, a punch line — shorthand for the kind of middlebrow rock music that arrived in the wake of grunge's demise.
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Then came the punch line ... which drew laughs, but also shock from others onstage -- Kevin Pollak winced and Cybill Shepherd's jaw literally dropped.
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The punch line, of course, is that this same literature also reports a consistent relationship between these dimensions of personality and political temperament.
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Because stand-up in the form it exists — stand-up punch line — that's a form that was set up by men for men.
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This bit gets a gender-politics punch line, as women take the mics away and one stuffs the phallic object into her pants.
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HISLOP This is just a great punch line to the exhibition — although it made me laugh more than it made the British Museum.
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The moment she finishes telling him off, the opening guitar chug of the Wilbury's "Handle With Care" hits like a musical punch line.
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Is there anything different about the rhetorical structure of a joke in Hebrew and one in English, like where the punch line lands?
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The anchovy may have once been a punch-line and an item of derision, especially among the cartoon turtles of the late 1980s.
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But the punch line is short-lived in this thrilling film filled with plenty of twists that are by turns frightful and touching.
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He had a similar experience in Karaganda, a place in interior Kazakhstan that, in the Soviet era, was used as a punch line.
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Then comes relief (and the punch line) in the form of Kellyanne Conway, played by Kate McKinnon, who hypnotically encourages him to sleep.
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The punch line of a corpse flower's existence, of course, is that it stinks when it's at its most appreciated part of its life.
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Trump has become a frequent punch line, but Democratic leaders here have warned their supporters against thinking the President will be easy to unseat.
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The punch line here is that the best way to get true defensibility in the digital world seems to be by using network effects.
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But the role reversal here — her son's the one saying the punch line in the This Is Us version — is a sweet Easter egg.
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His conviction and automatic ouster immediately increased the political turmoil that had shadowed Alabama for months, and made it something of a punch line.
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" Or, as Mr. Weiner tells the filmmaker in a closing scene: "I hope that it's more than just a punch-line kind of thing.
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And there you have the entire cast of characters, and the setup for an extended joke in which death is the inevitable punch line.
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"Conceptual art is usually a punch line, but what makes art powerful is its physical embodiment and repetition," they said of the wall concept.
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We pretend to be scandalized by the phrase "coat-hanger abortion," but in the end it is a punch line in a party game.
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The punch-line is that most of these teams will almost certainly face extremely talented teams the weekend after the regular season's final game.
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Fit City A punch line might be expected when a boxer and a rabbi walk into a cultural center on the Upper East Side.
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For much of his life, Aquaman was relegated to second-tier status — underwhelming on land, great as a punch line to many fabulous memes.
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But the Mets, until then a baseball punch line, had suddenly become a team to reckon with in the eighth year of their existence.
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But it's still thought of as an in-between place, a punch line, where small neat gardens reflect the dimensions of their owners' minds.
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But the script, by Madelyn Deutch, is uneven, and for every punch line that lands, another undermines good timing with dated references and clichés.
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Instead, Fyre had become a punch line for its aborted opening, with reports of panicked millennials scrounging for makeshift shelter on a dark beach.
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But if ethics reform in Albany has been something of a long-running joke, the creaky committee meeting on Thursday was its punch line.
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As he finished a punch line that explored how much they must love sex with children considering the consequences, he added a few giggles.
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The do-over is as wounding to the terrorist's twisted pride in his craft as repeating a punch line would be to a comedian's.
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"In this line of endeavor, you hear about things like network notes, and that's always a kind of vicious punch line," Mr. Harris said.
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Every camera setup is a study in inertia; every other cut is a beat or two behind where a punch line needs to land.
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This puzzle by Sam Trabucco is fairly easy for a Thursday, but it holds its punch line for the end, giving it more impact.
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Her husband's annual get-togethers with the "X-Files" crowd were a hobby for him, and a good-natured punch line for their family.
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Most notably, he doesn't magically snap back to his previous weight, as is common in other films that use fatness as a punch line.
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But while the slogan once stood for open-mindedness and uninhibited affection, the words have now become a punch line for a seemingly flawed idea.
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At that point, America's mayor will have completed the now familiar trajectory of the mediagenic Trump ally, from Fox pundit to late-night punch line.
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This attitude put Ty at risk of becoming merely a punch line, but it was also resonant enough that it could have sustained his career.
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The first and second lines introduce a character, activity or setting, while the third and fourth lines are generally shorter to intensify the punch line.
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Mr. Trump has long been a punch line for Mr. Obama — the president skewered him in humorous speeches at three White House Correspondents' Association dinners.
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Mr. Carmichael, in the grand tradition of stand-ups-turned-actors, can deliver a bone-dry punch line, but needs a seasoned cast around him.
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No one absorbs a punch line better than Patrick Warburton, and he is certainly pummeled with them in "Crowded," which starts on Tuesday on NBC.
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Those associations continue today: bidets were a punch line in the movie Get Him to the Greek and part of a joking Jennifer Lawrence video.
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The platoon quickly became the punch line of what several Marines in the unit described as sexist, if unspecified, insults by others in Echo Company.
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When menstruation is treated as normal, it becomes more than a nuisance, a punch line or a weapon wielded to keep women in their place.
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" There is laughter before someone says, as though delivering the punch line to the most painful joke ever told: "I would love this country, too.
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But if the appearance was an attempt to rehab Mr. Spicer's public image, the price was admitting that his credibility was now a punch line.
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The font attracted eye rolls and cringes from its inception, and has "long been the default punch line in the design community," one designer said.
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The line's notorious state of non-fruition had made it a perennial punch line, a home-town Godot, shorthand for decades of public-works failure.
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" She said the teenagers burst into laughter, writing that "I walked away knowing that I had been the punch line of their 'locker room' talk.
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In the general election Bloomberg ran against the public advocate Mark Green, whose grating manner had made him a punch line in New York politics.
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Jack had been influenced by comic strips, a lot of multipanel things, that wasn't just a punch line but the telling of a funny story.
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" He let the audience imagine why with the story's punch line: "We are going to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country.
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The friend was laughing, setting up a joke — about what, Mr. Scott can't remember — but it was Ms. Phan who threw out the punch line.
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The video showing the manhandling of Dr. David Dao prompted outrage around the world and made United a punch line on late night TV. _____ 6.
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In most parts of the world, including the small town east of Paris where I lived as a kid, prunes were never a punch line.
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Last April's accidental transfer of $35 billion by a German bank may be no more than an industry punch line, but it underscores this hazard.
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CrossFit, a high-intensity workout developed by Greg Glassman in the early 2000s, is both a punch line and a religion, depending on whom you ask.
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" These Europeans thought they had a winning punch-line by repeating the mantra that "protectionism and retreating from the global trading system are not the solutions.
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" That line made me laugh out loud, although it's hardly a punch line — and the movie whose radicalism is being celebrated happens to be, um, "Avatar.
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But the target of her punch line allegedly considered suing her for defamation, which in turn helped Silverman's presence in the film stand out even more.
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Made in America argued compellingly that after his acquittal, the ostracism visited upon Simpson—expelled from his country club; transformed into a punch line—was severe.
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There was "Old Flame," a zany film-noir pastiche by Joe Iconis, whose punch line deflates the narrator's fantasy of murderous revenge on an old lover.
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It has occupied a special place in New York City's imagination for nearly 100 years: an unfinished dream, a punch line for delays, a construction nightmare.
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And he seemed aware of the results' impact, candidly telling me, in what would later become a famous punch line, "it was a thumpin'," Bush said.
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It was a work — ridiculous and profound, close to but not quite a punch line or a philosophical lament — that was worthy of the artist himself.
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That's either the setup to a bad joke or the start of a revolution in American health care — but for now, nobody knows the punch line.
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Today, MK-ULTRA has a permanent place in American culture, though it's often synonymous with conspiracy theory or a punch line for jokes about tinfoil hats.
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Mr. Mattis also referred to earlier remarks by the actor Martin Short, who was the master of ceremonies at the dinner, setting up a punch line.
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Mr. Spicer, whose tenure as President Trump's chief spokesman has made him a television sensation and late-night punch line, calls himself his own worst critic.
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There's a bit of subtle music theory education there, but the punch line was in the unexpected change of character brought on by the different key.
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As comedy, it's masterful — there's tension, irony and, when the car stops and reverses to retrieve some litter, a punch line that brings down the house.
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Unfortunately in America the character is best known from the execrable 1995 Sylvester Stallone vehicle Judge Dredd, which turned the character into something of a punch line.
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It's the perfect three-act-structure: You start at one end, develop conflict in the middle two panels, and resolve with a punch line at the end.
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Meanwhile, the term itself has become something of a punch line, as analysts, pundits, and even current and former players question whether the system has become obsolete.
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As the character herself noted in the finale, Shelly is often relegated to a punch line, the Barbra Streisand-loving condo dweller in a family of sophisticates.
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Unlike Cards Against Humanity (and all the various knockoffs) which have the punch line written for you, Quiplash lets you make jokes that are entirely your own.
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He became the punch line for many a late-night TV host and simply didn't fit in with my hypermasculine Method Man, Nas, and Tupac Discman preferences.
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In April, the comedian Bill Maher used the threat of rape in prison as the punch line of a joke about Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen.
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That's followed by an offhand reflection on making a leaf-shaped ashtray in grade school that becomes a well-turned shaggy dog tale, complete with punch line.
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This kind of reception has followed the show since its premiere in 1981, when it immediately became both a punch line and a watershed for musical theater.
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And by the time you work your way down to the punch line at 53A, you might even be able to guess the quip as a whole.
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Starr gained talk-show punch-line prominence as the legal nemesis of both Bill and Hillary Clinton, pursuing a variety of probes that ultimately fueled Clinton's impeachment.
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On the spectrum from freewheeling to more structured, he falls in the middle, letting audiences tell their stories, then riffing until he finds the perfect punch line.
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With Ms. Berlant and Mr. Scovel he shares a conviction that the biggest — or maybe just the best — laughs are on the trip to the punch line.
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It's become something of a punch line, particularly whenever Trump or Marco Rubio turn and run from global heavyweights like Joe Scarborough and the debate moderators of CNBC.
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The answer feels purposefully predictable at this point in the book, but the punch line is hilariously not: the collection is moving to a space museum in Beijing.
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There are oddities like the Yugo–the worst car ever made–so poorly engineered it's had more of a life as a punch line than as a vehicle.
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" Maher makes Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, a punch line when he says, "He's the one who famously said, 'I'd take a bullet for Donald Trump.
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Like a five-gallon tub of ice cream in Michael Moore&aposs bed, it does not even need a punch line, the Democrats midterm lead is disappearing fast.
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But the party shifted its attention to big money and big cities, and Democrats became little more than a rural punch line for the likes of Rush Limbaugh.
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He also used it as a recurring punch line in interviews and speeches, including to Defense News, the Associated Press, NBC News, Brown University, Syracuse, Duke and others.
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That pattern has made talk of a Trump "pivot" into something of a punch line, with political operatives increasingly convinced that the candidate cannot and will not change.
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Across eight features in 27 years, the awfulness of our species — in particular its North American, suburban varieties — has served Mr. Solondz as both premise and punch line.
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The annual dinner features a lighthearted speech from the president; that year, President Obama chose Mr. Trump, then flirting with his own presidential bid, as a punch line.
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At the end of her life, when she should be reaping the rewards of seniority and respect, she fears that she has been turned into a punch line.
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Once the N.F.L.'s poster child for futility and a punch line for potential relocation, the Jaguars (3813-4) are now one of the league's top turnaround stories.
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The void arrives with the tidy logic of a punch line: You reach it, and you realize there was no place else you could ever have been headed.
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"Because we're urgently on the case, it actually adds to the value because you get to the punch line of what needs to be done quicker," he said.
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It should come as no surprise, then, that Mr. Trump governs the way he delivers a punch line: consolidating support among the hard core while alienating everybody else.
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That is not a surprising decision these days, when "bipartisanship" has turned into a punch line and party-line voting has become the rule rather than the exception.
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Had you told me even a week ago about such a thing, I would have asked how long it would take before you got to the punch line.
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The president's unabashed support for the Patriots turned into a punch line on social media when the Patriots fell behind by 25 points early in the second half.
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In "Nanette," Ms. Gadsby explains that the problem of jokes is rooted in their structure — the escalation of tension (the setup) and the inevitable release (the punch line).
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The punch line in my book is we have way more power than we realize, because the elected officials want to make change on both sides of the aisle.
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In addition to turning people with actual blindness into a punch line, it's incredibly easy to see how taken to its inevitable extreme, this could result in preventable injury.
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However, the video takes every punch line just as literally, and it also features cameos from Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Meek Mill, Gunplay, and, of course, DJ Khaled himself.
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It became a punch line, an "I'll believe when I see it" eye-roll for cynical New Yorkers who have come to think the worse of their subway system.
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"The punch line is that this basically needs to be a core part of how we make decisions about anything that'll be around for years to come," Kopp said.
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There's no punch line to this extremely un-funny joke, and it's shockingly out of place in a show otherwise doing wonders for the representation of people of color.
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There's a moment where Ronnie touches his stomach, which could have set up a punch line for how funny it is that he'd try to join the lifeguard team.
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He has cut that joke and a few other controversial ones — though he has a dopey new punch line comparing vegans to gay people that seems intended to bait.
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He is cerebral and soft-spoken, and his jokes don't forcefully build momentum so much as gracefully waltz from setup to punch line, each move subtle and carefully designed.
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In Asymmetry, the first two sections are entirely different but share a language of metaphor and reference; the short final section is like the punch line to a joke.
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It seems as if, after decades as a punch line, maybe the world is finally ready to embrace Aquaman in all of his orange-and-green suited glory. video
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The only thing that's weird about the show is that there's a character on the show named Virginia, who is Vietnamese, and her ethnicity is a running punch line.
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" And after a shocked reaction to a punch line declaring that the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself, he told the crowd, "I know he's your friend.
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You need to know this, not only because it is classic 1970s television comedy, but also because you might have heard the punch line without knowing what it's from.
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A couple of references to the Knicks tend to befit the punch line they have become in today's N.B.A. Sandler at least did his part for the failed resurrection.
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The charges against Mr. Duran Infante made for a shocking turn in a story that, until her death, had cast Ms. Barahona as a malefactor or a punch line.
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Possibly conceived as a mordant punch line to the Obama era, it may turn out to be the inaugural blast of insurgent cinema in the age of Trump. 4.
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SATURDAY PUZZLE — I love those puzzles (mostly Sundays, I think) where the theme is a joke that is unfurled over several entries with its punch line at the bottom.
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For those who did not watch the gritty cop drama during its original run, the show has become a punch line used when joking about the overindulgence of the 1980s.
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But this generation wasn't fed activism as a punch line the way I was, and as Donald Trump emboldens conservative teenagers, my daughters and their friends aren't cowed — they're galvanized.
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Not to blow the punch line, but it is not much of an exaggeration to say that once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it.
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Alas, now the device is little more than a punch line, and you'd be hard-pressed to find cool hunters still riding the two-wheel contraptions, UL-certified or not.
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It seems that he was trying to beat the New York Times to the punch line, releasing the emails in the name of transparency -- a decision his father later praised.
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That's the punch line of a comprehensive analysis of 168 studies of more than 51,000 employees across industries: Leaders reward people who make the team and the organization more successful.
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Tim Iglesias, San Francisco RE: FIRST WORDS Amanda Hess traced the use of "political correctness" from conservative punch line to — for Donald Trump and his supporters — a national security threat.
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But he was more closely associated with a certain comedic tone — a relentless self-scrutiny that he passed off as self-absorption — than with any particular gag or punch line.
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The revealer in Ms. Burnikel's puzzle is at 218A, a great place for the punch line of a puzzle where the grid has some weird stuff going on above it.
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Most comics use the setup and punch line like a nail and hammer, but Dangerfield used them as a theremin player uses her hands, to bring forth strange, unexpected effects.
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The casting of Mr. Livingston and Mr. Duplass — who look more like brothers than Mr. Duplass and his actual brother, Jay Duplass — plays like a joke without a punch line.
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Nearby hangs a portrait by Mr. Kelley of a minor, partly obscured figure from one of the Detroit museum works — a comedic punch line about the "elevating" effect of art.
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The idea is that if you use variations on the phrase "That's racist!" as a punch line a few times, nothing else you say or do could possibly be racist.
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The message: acquiring a body that isn't a joke or a punch line, one that won't earn your partner high fives for his broad-mindedness, requires endless sacrifice, perpetual denial.
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Mr. Bush's assertion at a news conference, even as the agency was mismanaging its response, that Mr. Brown was doing a "heck of a job," became a national punch line.
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He's delighted by comedy rooted in language, and like a magician distracting you with banter, he favors complex premises that are actually elaborate contraptions meant to trigger the punch line.
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That phrase -- "Infrastructure Week" has become a punch line in Washington -- a 2016 Trump campaign promise that has always offered the faint glimmer of possible bipartisan cooperation yet has never materialized.
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While that might be easily rectified with an app update, the likely awkwardness of a group Tinder date will unfortunately forever be singed into one's mind, or remain a punch line.
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But the string of events that leads to a sex robot Todd invents for a friend becoming a network CEO gets old long before the admittedly hilarious season-finale punch line.
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As you grow older, you try waxing, shaving, tweezing, and endless attempts at other hair removal methods, but, like some cruel joke embedded in your biological design, the punch line persists.
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Check out the clip ... Ray J stands up when he hears his name but moments later is reduced to sitting with a blank stare on his face after Zachary's punch line.
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Remember how all those Jeb Bush ads became almost a punch line — leading some to actually calculate how much he spent per primary vote compared to skinflints like Cruz and Trump?
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The Hill's Jessie Hellmann reports: A pro-Hillary Clinton super-PAC says that despite Donald Trump's mockery of Clinton, the billionaire businessman and Republican presidential candidate is the real punch line.
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That is, as a guy from TV who tweeted stupid memes sometimes and retained a certain down-market patina among more credulous types while serving as a punch line for others.
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TruTV's hit show "Impractical Jokers" gets tons of laughs at the expense of a former crew member, but he doesn't want to be a punch line anymore ... not for free, anyway.
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With other jokes the angle between setup and punch line was so acute that it momentarily stunned the audience, requiring an extra beat to sink in and creating opportunities of timing.
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Putting the revealer at the bottom serves as that punch line, and it's an effective way to pull the theme together or at least send the solver off with a smile.
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Donald Trump was still a punch line, Hillary Clinton was poised to become the first female president, and Megyn Kelly was still an uncompromising, unapologetic, take-no-prisoners Fox News rebel.
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"And six seconds isn't necessarily enough time to give backstory, to explain your punch line (or yourself) to viewers who don't already have the context they need to understand," she added.
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The real punch line arrives when she delivers her package to Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook — and it's not a new product, but the remote control he needs for his presentation.
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Following his album's release, he wrangled the 17-year-old rising star Lil Pump — one of the rapscallions who made Mr. Cole's name a punch line — for an hourlong video interview.
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Every once in a while, someone hints at a great story — like the time Michael Jackson, Steve Jobs and Princess Diana shared an elevator — but it's all setup, no punch line.
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Bush is counting on the Palmetto State to rewrite the narrative of the GOP primary, which so far for him has been a decline from front-runner to frequent punch line.
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For the first time since people started monitoring such things, the Mets — the perennial punch line, the professional underdogs — had eclipsed the Yankees in popularity among New York City baseball fans.
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After a series of late-night Senate budget votes that laid the procedural groundwork for repeal with no certainty on what was to follow, one Democrat delivered a new punch line.
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The whole bit is perfectly timed and edited, down to the punch line: when Abbi runs over to bawl out the truck driver, she finds him watching porn as he drives.
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"Donald Trump sees this more as a punch line than a true, top-of-mind concern," said David Axelrod, a friend of Mr. Emanuel's and former senior adviser to Mr. Obama.
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The Flores controversy could also overshadow the run-up to Biden's expected presidential announcement that already is a bit of a punch line after a prolonged period on the launch pad.
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Ms. DeVos even became something of an internet punch line when she suggested that some school officials should be allowed to carry guns on the premises to defend against grizzly bears.
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It was before the internet, so you couldn't look it up, and you get the punch line at the end of the commercial about not believing everything you see [on TV].
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It also does little to assuage concerns that he can treat women with respect instead of turning them into a punch line, as he's done with Heidi Cruz, wife of Republican Sen.
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"You get bored of the superhero, you know the story punch line, you know he's going to win the fight and get the girl," said Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who plays Killer Croc.
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From this ugly confluence of good guys and bad guys, "Narcos" arrives at the sobering punch line of Agent Peña sitting in front of what he initially assumes is a disciplinary committee.
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History has placed Glass somewhere between punch line and cautionary tale on the continuum of wearable technology, and Google owned up to its mistakes in its approach to Glass back in 2015.
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Now, here is the real punch line, when you look at ratings from last May, May of 22016 to May of 230, CNN has lost one-quarter of its viewers, 22016% gone.
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What is a tabloid story if not a story about human beings with dignity who made mistakes, ruin everything, and were reduced to a punch line — when their punishment was already severe.
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"Infrastructure week" has long since become a punch line; nobody, and I mean nobody, believes that any real plan, let alone one that could pass a Democratic House, will ever be forthcoming.
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You also get to know my all-time heroes Statler and Waldorf, the professional haters in the "Muppet Show" balcony who remind us that even we critics can deliver a punch line.
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I thought I was concise in writing standup comedy, but you realize that crossword clues are basically a one- or two-word setup/punch line if you want them to be entertaining.
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Her latest film, Gigli, became one of the biggest box-office flops in recent memory — instantly becoming a punch line for late night comedians — and her relationship with Ben Affleck disintegrated soon after.
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"Big data" has been the term du jour in the enterprise software space for at least the past two years… the phrase has become so over-used that it's almost a punch line.
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The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s -- a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.
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The "Scumbag Steve" meme has since been endlessly repeated online, with the photo often sporting a setup line at the top that ends with a punch line, typically implying inconsideration at the bottom.
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The punch line who has now lost just about everything but his unfortunate name to revelations that he had, once again, exchanged sexually charged Twitter messages with a woman he had never met.
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The book follows four millennials — a demographic already treated as a national punch line — as they leave Stanford to make their way in a world immune to how special they think they are.
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" Then, the punch line: "Now imagine that instead of a cook you're a United States senator, and you have an idea of the scenario playing out in Washington today over the Supreme Court.
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The Buffalo Bills became a punch line thanks to their four consecutive Super Bowl losses from 1991 to 1994, but to me the Bills are the most important Super Bowl franchise in history.
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Ms. Taylor said she's aware that British-style fruitcakes are basically a punch line in the United States, but she bakes a small batch every year for the few people who appreciate it.
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But it's a testament to Martin's joke-writing skills that, 20 years into his career, he can still find new and surprising ways to turn the most granular observation into a punch line.
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He stayed with the team as it went from National League punch line to World Series champion, and as it moved from the Polo Grounds to Shea Stadium and then to Citi Field.
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John Kasich of Ohio has performed so abysmally in the Republican presidential primary that his curious insistence on remaining in the race has made him into a can't-take-a-hint punch line.
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Two days later, a lawyer hired by the Alabama House of Representatives released a report portraying Mr. Bentley as deceitful and desperate before his relationship with Ms. Mason made him a punch line.
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As the network groped for an answer to this question, its increasingly desperate attempts to attract viewers, to turn news into BREAKING NEWS, transformed it into something of a late-night punch line.
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"The secretary, who would have never gotten a cabinet job without her spouse, has made Infrastructure Week into a punch line," wrote a voter who gets extra credit for bringing infrastructure into the conversation.
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We usually have some witty punch line to go with deals posts, but when there's a Dell TV that's $1,400 off its original price, you don't really have to say anything more than that.
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His seriousness speaks to us, reminds us of a time when Portland metro was seen as a regular place with nice folks and not the punch line to a national joke about artisan foodstuffs.
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The Cellar was a punch line on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" and even at the club itself when the comic Ted Alexandro poked fun at the warm reception Louis C.K. had received.
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Read: "Normal People," Sally Rooney's hugely anticipated second novel, is finally out in the U.S. "There is, in the pointed dialogue, a reminder of why we call it a punch line," our critic writes.
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Here, he set up a gag for stars including Jessica Chastain ("The Golden Globes turned 75 this year … "), who sold the punch line (" … but the actress that plays its wife is still only 32").
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The very first theme entry at 22A gave me pause for a little while, as I'd sort of forgotten about its punch line, a fashion article that once made some sartorial waves, I guess.
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In this case the topic is one of his favorites, America's summer pastime, the ol' horsehide, but anyone who's played any sport or even collaborated on a project before will enjoy the punch line.
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On the House side, another Republican, Dan Burton, spearheaded a far more extensive investigation, which spanned two Congresses, cost upward of $7.4 million and turned the overzealous Mr. Burton into a political punch line.
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Like Mr. Trump before him, Mr. Bloomberg had flirted with running for president for so long, it had become something of a political punch line until he actually jumped into the race in November.
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I liked Rey's parentage, the character arcs and themes of the new film, but I hated, really hated, that the movie could not let tension stand without cutting the moment with a punch line.
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At this point, with four AXES down under, you could try to figure out how having "an ax to grind" might work, but there's a pair of punch line clues at 40D and 43D.
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Whether it was by giving us a different punch line, or a set up line, or a piece of staging, or changing the timing, it would inevitably make the moment work, and make it funny.
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When a tantalizing talent like Smith's withers as it has—when a player goes from borderline star to "just traded for the rights to Maarty Leunen" punch line—"What if?" is a perfectly natural question.
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" Her punch line contrasted the Republican "on your own" economic story with hers: "Now these are all causes I've worked on for decades and I believe they point to a fundamental truth about our economy.
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"He was reduced to a character and a punch line, and we felt that there was a more complex story to be told," said Ms. Steinberg, whose last documentary examined the trial of Saddam Hussein.
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In the final chapter, we get the brilliantly dark punch line: Offred's future reader turns out to be a smug know-it-all, a future professor of Gileadean studies, who deconstructs her like a bug.
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"If anybody's upset about that joke, just tweet about it on your phone that was also made by these kids," Mr. Rock added, a punch line interpreted as a reference to child labor in Asia.
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Despite Ms. Gadsby's formulaic definitions of comedy, a whole tradition, which includes Andy Kaufman and Tig Notaro and various proponents of cringe comedy, experiments with the tension-release dynamic of the setup and punch line.
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You have people who are participating with this meme and even when they're calling attention to this issue, obviously a terrible thing, it still ends up sort of flattening this guy into a punch line.
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When New Yorkers hear that Violet, a new restaurant in the East Village, serves a style of pizza that comes from Rhode Island, they start to smile, as if getting ready for the punch line.
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Anyone who has performed for three people in the back of a juice bar, trying to land a punch line over the whir of a blender full of kale (for example) can vouch for that.
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That punch line, about rape as a silver lining, is the sort of nasty zinger that some of us adore: a dirty joke with a feminist backhand, using shock to slice through anxiety and anger.
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One player reads a situation card out loud ("When my brother brought out his new baby to show the family, Granny blurted out …") and then everyone else chooses a punch line card to finish the phrase.
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Game of Thrones Nearly two days after the most recent episode of "Game of Thrones," fans are still struggling with the loss of a gentle giant previously known for being everyone's favorite "Thrones" punch line. Hodor.
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" Another breakup song, "Maiysha (So Long)," is a synthetic bossa nova whose lyrics hide a bawdy inside joke — "That's what she said," the punch line turned into a popular meme by the NBC sitcom "The Office.
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Opinion: The single greatest punch line in our nation's history Philip Roth's death leaves us to begin examining the most imposing, eclectic and challenging body of work of any 20th-century American writer, writes Gene Seymour.
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With earnest, transcendental lyrics about the indestructible spirit "flying" onward after death, it can be something of a punch line — Bill Murray and Woody Harrelson toke up to "Reaper" in the sharp horror farce "Zombieland" (2009).
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" Writer to reader, that Tucker Carlson would draw you in and smack you with an epiphanic punch line, as he bonded with his most famous companion over their shared outlook: "Sharpton doesn't hate whites after all.
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The G line is no longer a punch line; it is a train New Yorkers increasingly enjoy riding and might even consider cool, though its heavily hipster clientele would be unlikely to say so out loud.
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It's a joke that can be told a thousand different ways — Mom and Dad explain oral sex too graphically, Mom lectures about alcohol while drinking some, and so on — but it's essentially the same punch line.
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This polarity—between a tragic sense of the world and the ability to make of it a kind of punch line—might help to unshroud, if only slightly, an enigma at the heart of McWhorter's book.
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Even when the first season did get dark, it did so in that familiar, 30 Rock style, so that even when she's re-enacting a rape, it was wacky, brief, and concluded with a punch line.
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The Jets, a football team that has been an N.F.L. punch line for years, asked a comedian to be the master of ceremonies at a loud, flashy event to unveil the team's new uniforms on Thursday.
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While our previous president had a gift for delivering a dry punch line, even alongside some of our best comedians, there's a reason the ex-congressman Morris Udall titled his memoir "Too Funny to Be President."
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Nevertheless, the movie percolates enough that even when, at its climax, it shamelessly recycles a grisly punch line from 1987's "RoboCop," it's kind of endearing, not least because Mr. Anderson and company make it work.
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And yet years after the HBO satire "Silicon Valley" made the vacuous mission statement "making the world a better place" a recurring punch line, many companies still cheerlead the virtues of work with high-minded messaging.
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He can't decide, for that matter, whether climate change is a hoax or a political punch line: The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
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Mr. Sutherland's drinking has been a tabloid punch line in the past: In 2005, he hurled himself at a decorated Christmas tree in a London hotel lobby; and a D.U.I. arrest led to a brief jail stint.
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Scovell is understandably giddy at crafting one-liners for the White House Correspondents Dinner, to be delivered by the leader of the free world — a man who just happens to know how to land a punch line.
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At a time when investors are trying to gauge whether Mr. Bolsonaro's Brazil is a worthwhile bet, incidents like these are sure to undermine confidence in the country and turn Brazil into a punch line, she said.
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Some of his agility and mischievousness has been replaced with an increased narrative ambition, rooted in a confidence in his ability to get a laugh so firm that he goes deep into ideas without a punch line.
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In my eyes, the point wasn't to relegate South Asian women to a punch line, but to add levity to a story in which Mr. Nanjiani struggles with a choice that could isolate him from his family.
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It's a fascinating story about tech progress, international manufacturing and shifting consumer preferences, and it all ends in a sad punch line: Great gadget companies are now having a harder time than ever getting off the ground.
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These loosely affiliated, offbeat miniaturists were sending up the format of traditional jokes by undercutting the expectation of a punch line, using textual elements (odd spacing, spelling, punctuation), creating tiny scripts or warping grammar to comedic ends.
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This contortion transitions into a mask of confusion as her shoulders rise, the only help her body offers to the wonderful above-the-neck physical comedy that turns the punch line that follows into a mere coda.
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A more intense focus is on creating a national team capable of transforming itself from a punch line into a force that can compete with the best in Asia and, eventually, against the best in the world.
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Then the third panel reveals the surprise punch line: he is in fact complaining about the president's vicious attacks on "the free speech of athletes," alluding to Trump's vilification of football players who kneel during the National Anthem.
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Michelle Rodriguez scowling and yelling, "DOM!" triggers so many associations in subsequent movies because we were so memorably introduced to it in the first—it is the kind of punch-line that provokes laughter even before it lands.
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Perhaps it all sounds fairly ridiculous, like a story about a little survivalist house in the woods or the start of a joke about puritanical parenting (no gluten, no grease) that has Gwyneth Paltrow as its punch line.
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Like Gadsby, many women have excluded or elided the difficult parts of their stories for the sake of a punch line, the sake of not upsetting the status quo, or the sake of the comfort of their listeners.
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Years later when Kilstein hit a break and was asked to perform on Conan O'Brien, he ditched the typical set-up/punch-line routine in favor of a five-minute rant against George Bush and the war on Iraq.
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In that case, you might be wondering why "VR" has been the buzzword for "hot, new, possibly-a-fad tech" the last couple of years, occasionally serving as an easy tech punch line now that hoverboards are finally dead.
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The Comedy Central writers sent him a list of jokes before the event, and Mr. Trump took issue with only one punch line, crossing out a reference to his wealth as $2 billion and replacing it with $10 billion.
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That left Jason Thompson, who at that point had played 541 games, all of them with the Sacramento Kings, as the league's reigning champion in a punch line of a category: most games played without a single playoff appearance.
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In the context of scenes from "Licht" about cooperation and connection, it no longer seemed like a punch line or publicity stunt; it was a statement, if an ecologically reckless one, about what is possible when people work together.
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MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines joked on Monday about using marijuana to stay awake at official functions, but the punch line appeared lost on a nation where thousands of people have been killed in his antidrug campaign.
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So at the drop of a punch line, the show is suddenly crowded by throngs of ghostly cheerleaders, gospel singers, a dead football team (for a sequence set in hell), not to mention really big puppets (by Michael Curry).
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The accusation has become so familiar that in certain circles, it's curdled into a punch line — as when people post a picture of a bad outfit or a new celebrity couple and say, in mock outrage, ''This is violence!
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Chris Moore, the father of Danielle Moore, 24, who was killed, said that he spent "an agonizing night" thinking about the messages and that the families of those killed were the "punch line" of a joke among Boeing staff.
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But his boss, President Trump, has similarly raised doubts about the cause of global warming and has said a great deal more on the subject — as part of an argument, an applause line, a punch line or an insult.
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While other media companies collapse or implode—witness the once-proud Tribune Company's devolution into national punch line "Tronc"—there is unease over the possibility that when (or if) the Times emerges from its digital rebirth, it might be scarcely recognizable.
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Clark turns the character's specific rich-mom anxieties — making sure the decorations are just-so, placating catty neighbors, emotionally nurturing a child in need — into a marvelously twisted joke with a punch line involving a panda costume and a vanilla cake.
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True, the kiwi quickly became a punch line (The Times's restaurant critic Mimi Sheraton called it "the emperor's new clothes in fruits" in 219), and none of its cohorts would go on to receive the same kind of cultish adoration.
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The punch line is that Donald Trump's proposed policies will only broaden inequality in this country: His tax cuts would deprive the government's coffers of $6.2 trillion in revenue over the course of ten years, according to the Tax Policy Center.
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As the war in Iraq dragged on for years to come and American casualties piled up, the "Mission Accomplished" banner became a punch line, a telling indication of the Bush administration's gross underestimation of the challenge posed by the conflict.
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They believe he is the kind of moderate Democrat who can unseat the Republican congresswoman, Claudia Tenney, an unabashed supporter of President Trump whose fiery rhetoric has become both a lightning rod locally and a late-night television punch line nationally.
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While Rabbi Freundel had few defenders in the Jewish community after his fall, there were plenty of people — fellow rabbis included — who very quickly made light of him, made him into a punch line, in the process minimizing his crime.
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The last bit of dialogue, "That's the guy I was telling you about," is a punch line right up there with, "Orange you glad I didn't say banana?" or "You're not in this for the hunting, are you?" or "The Aristocrats!"
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But for Davos to be more than a punch line about the wealthy, it will have to address the pains of globalization head on and do better than its usual platitudes about building "a dynamic, inclusive multi-stakeholder global-governance system."
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The punch line is when you look at this broader statistic, that number is basically consistent with an unemployment rate below 5 percent and it's very similar to the figure you get in 2005, when the economy was at full employment.
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The humanist founders of Esalen were genuinely dedicated to the expansion of consciousness; that the Big Sur retreat should become a byword for trendy spiritual day-trippers (and an ambivalent punch line on "Mad Men") is a sign of its importance.
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Brafman, the former Catskills stand-up comic-turned-high-powered criminal defense lawyer, tried to deliver a killer punch line to prosecutors and their evidence Thursday as he asked jurors to acquit his client Shkreli of securities fraud and other charges.
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While Marvel has cranked out one hit after another, Ben Affleck's lack of enthusiasm for the role has been painfully noticeable, and the superhero's gruff voice and lack of actual superpowers are treated as a punch line on late-night shows.
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Cancelled after one season, Lucky Louie relied heavily on ba-dum ching repartee, which was also bad for Adlon, even when she got the punch-line; it forced her to play along, to cooperate with the logic of C.K.'s brand of humor.
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By the time he hears the "audience" reaction when he provides a punch line to one of the script's corny jokes, or when he starts screaming four-letter words only to be bleeped out, you can see genuine terror in his face.
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This sounds like a joke, but the punch line pays off: the resulting wedges have sweet, raisiny edges, like sticky candy, and creamy interiors, and come in a pool of buttery beet Bordelaise that looks like horror-movie blood and smells like chocolate.
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Before it gets to be such a catchall phrase that they dilute its meaning, that we help people understand the gravity behind the words and that it's not just used as, "Oh, look who got Me Too'd, ha-ha," like a punch line.
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A decade ago, at the height of T-Pain's fame, the idea of an acoustic show would have sounded like a punch line: The musician most closely identified with the artistic use of the vocal-processing software AutoTune, performing without its assistance?
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Oh, he forgot the names of friends and neighbors and sometimes even the names of his grandchildren, but he rarely forgot the words to a song or the punch line to an old joke, and he rarely missed an opportunity for a wisecrack.
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All I needed to do now was: I'd never gambled before, aside from the stupid friend bets you make on the bus, where money is just a useful punch line in pointing out how a football team is shit and can't win anything.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump has rolled back environmental regulations, pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, brushed aside dire predictions about the effects of climate change, and turned the term "global warming" into a punch line rather than a prognosis.
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The image that hangs in Peele's office comes from the sketch's punch line: It's a black-and-white photograph of the businessman character beaming at a banquet-hall table, the one black face in an ocean of well-heeled, blank-looking white ones.
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In Medina, the film's use of demagogy wasn't a drawback, but a punch line: One scene dismissing minority voters as leeches feeding off Democrats' "modern plantation" was met with approving giggles, while a montage of liberals crying on election night elicited riotous laughter.
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But his story is better understood, really, as less a three-year punch line and more a cautionary tale, highlighting just how precarious a soccer career can be, the fragility of success and the damage that can be inflicted by one bad choice.
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The invisible car is a variant on something called a brick joke: actually a pair of jokes in which the first sets up an unresolved element that returns as the punch line of the second, ideally after the listener has forgotten about it.
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The punch line of the series was the perfect metaphor for today's real-life digital landscape: A groundbreaking artificial-intelligence platform called Pied Piper (the actual product is called PiperNet) had become potentially dangerous and rats got activated to destroy the creation.
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He deftly delivers a punch line, but he's even better at setting up a premise, careful not to get ahead of his audience, establishing the idea with the patience and conviction of a Broadway pro crying on cue years into a run.
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"The truth of the matter is, if the political process had come on further to the punch line of making the choices which need to be made, then our role would have been better boxed into a classical role of a judge," he said.
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As a result, Mr. Simpson became a pop culture touchpoint, a punch line and, depending on your point of view, either a sinister murderer or a victim of racist police officers set upon taking down one of the most prominent athletes of all time.
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It's a familiar story to anyone in a creative industry — even though Moyd was headlining at top San Francisco clubs like the Punch Line and Cobbs, and opening for icons like Dave Chappelle at Fox Theater in Oakland, comedy didn't always pay his bills.
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If, that is, you're old enough to have grown up during the bland period when a domestic sitcom consisted of a husband and wife whose attraction to each other was never convincing and who conversed in setup/punch line repartee of the most predictable sort.
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A cane-twirling Mr. Jacobi, old enough to be his character's grandfather, plays the role as a gently camp confidant and occasional crooner who treats every remark as a seeming punch line in the continuing bad joke that this aging roué might otherwise call life.
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Rather than complaining about ethics reforms, Mr. Heastie would serve New Yorkers better if he put aside such pettiness and showed that the Assembly will be serious about enacting measures that can transform Albany from a punch line into a model of good government. Gov.
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While a comedian might talk about how annoying traffic is at a comedy night, Shirley will create a graphic of cars on the road with a color-coded key of common bad driving practices that provides a different way of conveying the punch line:
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"And she cooked with it!" my father would cry—the punch line of the story—as his dinner guests shook their heads and moaned "Ohh noo!" and my mother smiled gamely and played along as the simpleton housewife, which she most certainly was not.
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In the case of the "Daily Show With Trevor Noah" writer Josh Johnson, a Louisiana background informs his measured, low-key delivery, while his theater-kid background taught him to coax laughter from extended pauses that could send other comics sprinting to the next punch line.
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The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Failure to Launch, Fool's Gold, and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past made their star into a punch line between 2001 and 2009, but because the ticket sales remained robust, there was no cause to mess with success.
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By the time he left the race Saturday having failed to break into the top tier in any of the first three Republican nominating contests, his campaign reduced to a punch line that would have been funny if it hadn't been so painfully awkward and sad.
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"He sat us down, told a dry-sense-of-humor dad joke and after the punch line, just stood up and walked to the water cooler at the end of the bench," said Adrian Tigart, who played on Pearl's round of 16 team at Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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Ahead of the new season, our special section looks back 50 years at what became known as the Mets miracle: The 1969 Mets, above, suddenly developed into a team to be reckoned with, winning the World Series after seven years of being a baseball punch line.
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But the report detailed how the gravest crisis of Mr. Northam's career unfolded behind closed doors, and how early decisions helped shape a "shocking and chaotic" drama that left Virginians flummoxed, the statehouse in shambles and the governor more a punch line than a powerful politician.
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These restrictions would not be quite so upsetting if prison food itself weren't a punch line, if the education of inmates wasn't underfunded and inadequate, and if the libraries in the facilities themselves even remotely reflected the means by which knowledge in the 21st century is acquired.
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You know what happened next: three studio albums between 1988 and 1991, a covers record in 1993 and then the punch-line-long wait for "Chinese Democracy," which finally arrived in 2008 featuring none of the "Appetite" lineup aside from the frontman and songwriter Axl Rose.
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" Favorite episode: "Dad's Dungeon," Season 3 Mr. Ward once described Patrick McHale's idea of a punch line as "the calm smile of a man made of watermelons being revealed through parting morning mist" — a tranquil sensibility that influenced Mr. McHale's work as creative director on "Adventure Time.
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Take Milo's (5) + one (3) and mix up those letters to find something that could mean a dollar in crosswordese, say, SIMOLEON, a slang term that you have hopefully heard of (in order to get the punch line to these jokes it helps to know the language).
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Chicago's mayor and police superintendent deployed the "race card," but the punch line to their righteous indignation in the Smollett case is Chicago's history of systematic police abuse and cover-ups of physical violence, brutality, and even death of black folks at the hands of the police.
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"Seven years of being treated in the public eye like a punch line about female imperfection may not have felt like it was wearing me down, but it had actually forced me to rely emotionally on my one area of fully conventional beauty: my perfect fucking skin," Dunham writes.
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But there she was, laughing as Maurice de Borbón told a long story about Rothko and the Pale of Settlement and the Four Seasons, no one really following, Maurice ending his monologue on the ecstasy and the doom of turpentine and impotence, which evidently was the punch line.
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But the point stands: If ever there was one piece of definitive proof that screamo—a genre whose very name was a punch line for so long—could encompass an era as completely and compellingly as the biggest rock band in the world, City of Caterpillar was it.
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His show "Masses & Mainstream," at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, is a torrent of pencil drawings large and small, and all of them revolve, in one way or another, around the artist's ability to make anything in the world into a kind of punch line merely by pointing it out.
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The team behind Apple's 'Mythic Quest' says video games aren't the punch line When video game publisher Ubisoft first approached "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" stars Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day about creating a new show set in the game industry, McElhenney said they weren't interested — at least not initially.
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In fact, he is in the process of curtailing his busy touring schedule, so that he can focus on what is already a prodigious rate of composition — a level of productivity that has made him, depending on whom you ask, either the wonder or the punch line of modern music.
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From Happy Endings' Max Blum to Looking's Richie Ventura, the "masc" gay dude has gone from an easy punch line to the new norm, and it's far from a huge leap to claim that in 2016, certain ideas of gay masculinity have finally become firmly entrenched in mainstream Western pop culture.
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Written on his breaks, their title an invitation to us to read them on ours, the seemingly dashed-off lines celebrate the pleasure a mind can take in wandering through its own busyness: Creative practice can be meditative flow, but it can also be worthy of a Ricky Gervais punch line.
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While Mr. Kushner was raised in Livingston, an upper-middle-class town of 30,000 in neighboring Essex County, he attended school in Paramus, a middle-class town a dozen miles from the edge of Manhattan that, with its surfeit of malls, has long held the status of a punch line.
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But many people still circulate editorial cartoons on social media because the gifted artist can find ways -- through the art of caricature, precision of the pithy punch line, and imaginative framings of events -- to either make us see something differently or perfectly capture what we feel in an uniquely expressive way.
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Now the story is being told once again, a darkly comic power grab that ends with Agrippina's exultant final line that she can die happy now that she has ensured that Nero will rise to the throne — quite the punch line, given that he would go on to have her killed.
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In just about every conversation, Trump's name was invoked, not as an example, or even as a punch line, but as the source of potential danger – a leader who doesn't much care about rules-based order, cooperation across borders on issues such as climate change or what the idea of "global governance" means.
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"The punch line is that this basically needs to be a core part of how we make decisions"Overall, Kopp says, a Sandy-like flood jumped from being a 1-in-1,200 year event at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, to a 100-in-400 year event in the year 2000.
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By forcing blue-state liberal types to reckon with a demographic they had long dismissed as a punch line — low-income, uneducated whites in economically depleted regions — he awakened them to the fact that the groovy progressive social values they had assumed were a national fait accompli were actually only half the story.
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Even before the allegations, which I didn't pay much attention to at the time, I was never much of a Kelly fan — I imagine "I Believe I Can Fly" is playing on loop somewhere in The Bad Place — but I did find him to be an excellent punch line for a long time.
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The underlying subject of this scene, with its repeated punch line about a husband who's a "cheetah," seems to be the impossibility of marriage — a theme picked up next in the kitchen, where Paula (Lindsay Rico) is sharing with Sue (Ronete Levenson) the results of her calculations on the duration of love.
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I miss my father's fund of knowledge and the way he knew something about everything, and his professorial tendency to lecture at the dinner table, and his inability to remember that he had told his jokes before, and his good-natured acceptance when he started one and every grandchild could provide the punch line.
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Scaramucci used a downtown phrase to describe an underground feat of dexterous self-pleasure, which has creatively taxed the translation teams of several foreign newspapers, cost him a 10 day-old job and made him even more of a punch line on social media platforms and late-night talk shows than he had been.
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In his prime, Woods rarely succumbed to pressure, not as a golfer, not as the son of a Thai mother and an African-American father, not as the punch line in a classic "Chappelle's Show" skit in which Asians and black people argued over who'd get him in the first round of a racial draft.
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Lost in the fallout over Jackson's latest commentary on Anthony was his needless use of Michael Graham as a prop and punch line in the attack, swiping at Graham, a former troubled player who had a dispiriting home life and whom Jackson coached for about 15 minutes in the basketball bush leagues 30 years ago.
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In other words, they're offering, on his behalf, the "some of my best friends are black" defense, which has so often been relied on by those facing accusations of racism that it has become shorthand for weak denials of bigotry — a punch line about the absence of thoughtfulness and rigor in our conversations about racism.
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Elsewhere, the central punch line is something more unsettling, as viewers can see in "Concert with Eight Figures," which is arranged like "Concert with a Bas-Relief" (1624–1000), where to the left of center a man grips his violin's unusually shaped neck between his knees as he gazes fondly at the ruminating youth.
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It's a debate that has been bubbling since even before McCain's death in August 2018, but has picked up steam of late as both Trump and the men and women seeking to replace him in 2020 seek to define what the longtime Arizona senator meant to politics -- and whether he should be a paradigm or a punch line.
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Collaborating with Cocteau and Dalí and dressing the world's then-most notorious mistress, Wallis Simpson, in an organdy white frock defiled with a giant red lobster, her fashion frequently appeared to be the punch line to a joke she was telling: have you heard the one about the woman who wore her shoe as a hat?
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Brown is an entertaining writer of what could be called High Magazinese, a prose of front-loaded descriptors and punch-line squibs (from the introduction: "Large, blond, and ebullient in his well-tailored suits, my father filled a room with his commanding height and broken nose"), and, winsomely, she seems to write this way even when writing for herself.
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The show's concept is also capacious enough to throw in a bit of everything—in the first episode alone, there's a short sketch called "Tiffany Haddish Tries Soup"; Alex Haley touting a movie called "Plane-Clownin' " (long story, goofy punch line); a darkly funny "War of the Worlds" parody; and an ad featuring the celebrity spokesperson Frederick Douglass.
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Insert your own punch line about old-school Republicanism imperiled at a time of scorched-earth politics ... Number of the day: $244 Yup, Marianne Williamson is still in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and CNN's David Wright reports that she is gingerly upping the ante with her first TV ad booking: a $244 cable buy in Columbia, South Carolina.
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What that demographic, newly awoken to her legacy, might not realize is how well Ms. Steinem — a social networker even before she joined Twitter; a nondriver; a voracious traveler who has spent most of her career without a formal job; and a lifelong rule-breaker who can rock a raised fist and a raunchy punch line — fits in with them already.
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Andrew Garfield, in his acceptance speech for lead actor in a play, spoke of L.G.B.T.Q. rights in clear but careful terms, invoking the "America we all want to live in one day" and ending with a punch line about the recent Supreme Court decision in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case ("Let's just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked").
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They think he is tough -- and they like it So much of Trump's appeal in the campaign was that he talked tough -- and people believed that he would draw brighter lines (and stick to them) than President Barack Obama: Whereas Obama's "red line" in Syria wound up being a punch line, no one would laugh when Trump laid down the law.
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He does a good job over all, demonstrating the same ability to jump between labored comic business and somber melodrama, often within a scene; the same willingness to make his characters look ridiculous; the same habit of getting out of a bland or nonsensical scene by ending on a non sequitur punch line; the same reliance on snippets of pop music to pump up emotion.
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Gefilte fish, that Passover punch line, an often sugared, gelatinous mash of ground carp, pike, and whitefish, becomes very nearly elegant in Teyf's hands: he uses it as filling for crisp, salty bread-crumb croquettes, which cut through the cloying sweetness of the fish and use the usual accompaniment of grated horseradish, dyed red and sweetened with beets and vinegar, as a subtle condiment instead of a masking device.
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The works on display in "Funny Stuff," a new exhibition of paintings being mounted for tonight's festivities, involve humor in a variety of ways — from Monica Cook's semi-grotesque "Extra Body," which depicts the grooming rituals of a pair of Siamese twins conjoined at the head, to Jaclyn Brown's riff on Tinder, "Tender," to Ken Johnson's "Untitled," which sets up a joke — a duck and a sphere walk into a bar — but leaves its punch line unsaid.
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Remember, as the saying almost goes: brevity is the central plank and the essential ingredient and the main thing of what people tend to call 'wit,'" "The shorter the story, the more it needs to be structured as a set-up and a punch-line or twist, like Tim Vine's beautiful joke: "Crime in multi-storey car parks — that is wrong on so many different levels" (fans of Tip 1 might suggest losing the word 'different').
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The entry into the South Dakota sequence deployed a classic rope-a-dope strategy of drawing you in with a ridiculously long stretch of absurd broad comedy (the large lady with the small dog, the banter with the cops that floods you with maybe pertinent, maybe irrelevant details and names) that suddenly turns into pure dread, then floors you with a horrific visual punch line: the corpse of the murdered woman in the bed, head decapitated and separated from a bloated (or pregnant?) body.
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